Day 26: Reminisces

Courtesy: Orlando Black

Memory returns

And ushers in sheaves of unrelenting reminisces;

Assurances of an uninterrupted flow of rust,

A déjà vu of residue experiences.

Kissing the jinxed feet of a fallible will,

Tomorrow sprawls in yesterday's grime.

Strength of mortals struggle on bended knee

In a time when the battle for hope is on the line.

Men who fought a common foe side by side

For one solitary noble cause,

Drunk on Independence's wine

Now lend a hand in annihilating a brother's life

It's the indignity of liberty's intrinsic worth

Still not a single patriot seeks out the fault.

All we like sheep straying to the slaughterhouse,

Getting in each other’s hair like some political louse

Feel the intensity of the hate within cutting us to strips

In a silent terrifying implosion.

From the same stock we have been conceived.

Black man thirsty for black man’s blood.

Reputed brothers of one paternal womb

Plunging headlong together into anarchy’s tomb.

We forget to remember

Labors of heroes past.

Akpan